Final Project : Cerebral Palsy

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Cerebral Palsy

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Understanding the brain : neurobiology of everyday

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What is Cerebral Palsy?

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Cerebral = Brain Palsy = Paralysis Cerebral Palsy is a group of disorders that affect a person's ability to move and maintain balance and posture.

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Cerebral Palsy is classified into five types:

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Spastic - 77% Ataxic - 15.4& Athetoid - 2.6% Hypotonic - 2.6% Mixed type - 2.4%

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1) Parts of NS that are active  in Cerebral Palsy?

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CP affects motor area of brain  outer layer called Cerebral Cortex ( part of brain that controls  muscle movements)

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CP can also affect nervous  system by impairing: * Mobility * Coordination * Balance * Speech * Seizures etc.

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2) Describe the functions of Nervous system  impaired in Cerebral Palsy?

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In one of the types of Cerebral Palsy the most common spastic , synaptic pruning (refer to process by which extra neurons and synaptic connections are eliminated in order to increase efficiency of neuronal transmission) is affected. When an information needs to reach our skeletal muscle it travels through corticospinal tract i.e from cerebral hemisphere ( from brain) to a muscle. In normal individuals, information which needs to travel comes from one of the two sides of cortex either right or left that reaches motor neuron. But, in a patient with CP information travels to a muscle from both sides of cortex. As a result, circuits down in spinal cord and muscles change their properties leads to change in motor functions.

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    How this course has allowed you      to better analyze events around you?

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Professor Meson has a better grip in  in neurobiology due to which she was  better able to summon up difficult and vast knowledge on neurobiology and  explain it in an easy manner After taking this course I am able to  better comprehend functions of our  brain and link them with daily life  examples. Now I am thankful for being healthy  after studying about various neuro- -logical disorders.

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Thank you! Professor Meson for providing me an opportunity to learn  new stuff due to this great course.